There is no shortage of creative coders in New York City. This was clear as soon as I pulled open the door to the basement of Babycastles, a gallery for independent video games in Manhattan, to reveal ...

We loved keygens back in the day. Our lawyers advise us to clarify that it’s because of the demo-scene style music embedded in them, not because we used them for piracy. [Patch] must feel the same way ...

Finland has added the country's Demoscene subculture to its National Inventory of Living Heritage, which is compiled based on standards laid out by the world heritage organisation UNESCO. This is a ...

Demos, the demoscene, and all the other offshoots of computer arts had their beginning as intros for cracked Apple II, Speccy, and Commodore 64 games. Give it a few years, and these simple splash ...

In founding Commodore International, Jack Tramiel set into motion events which would put more computers into the homes of average people than in any other period in history. But his legacy extended ...

While the tech art world has been chewing over the implications of the New Aesthetic, simmering away in the background has been a scene that has remained a constant for over 25 years—ever since the ...

"The demoscene is an international collective of programmers, graphics artists and musicians who create real-time audio-visual presentations with home computers. These people call themselves ...